Easily share your photos with others using PhotoBeamer from Nokia

Nokia has released an interesting tool that enables the sharing of photos on a Lumia Windows Phone with a PC or other web-enabled device. Through the use of QR Codes, those with a Lumia smartphone can send a photo on the device over Internet tubes to a larger screen or to a friend's smartphone. All that's required is the Windows Phone app and a second screen, both with Internet access.

So how does it all work? The Windows Phone app opens up and browses the photo albums located on the handset (no Facebook integration here, folks) and said content can then be displayed on a supported / approved display that's connected to an Internet enabled device. Opening the app up will show the file chooser, and once a photo has been selected the app will then fire up the camera and will require the user to head to the PhotoBeamer website (www.photobeamer.com) on the hardware where the photo will be displayed.

The website will render a QR code, which will need to be scanned by the Windows Phone to initiate the connection. From then on the Windows Phone can be used to swipe through an album with the photos being generated on the connected display / device. It's basically a mobile projector which is available at any point should a WiFi or mobile connection be presently available. What's more is the service requires no registration and is free to use.

As mentioned above, PhotoBeamer does require a 3G / 4G network or WiFi to function. It saves plugging in cables, connecting to SkyDrive, copying and pasting albums and more. Unfortunately the Windows Phone app is limited to Lumia handsets, which is a shame as it would prove to be a handy tool for every owner to utilise.

Easily share your photos with others using PhotoBeamer from Nokia

i'm using nokia lumia 920, but in extras+info said my phone is RM-820_att_100, no wonder I can't download this app and many apps that is not compatable with nokia 820, why they push the update but change my model?

Like the idea, to view pictures on a larger screen or to just show off your pictures to others.
Using the Lumia 920 and the pictures taken with the 920, the web page on the pc only shows the top 1-3 inches of the picture? Some times it shows the whole picture and try it again and only top part?
On the 920 the Photobeamer only option is to delete the history, nothing about number of pictures or sizes that can be selected . Does any one no how to get pictures be complete?

App works great!
I have a questions though...can you take over someone else's stream?
I used the app to hit the QR code in the article & it seemingly connected with no problem or error. Is is that easy to hijack someone else's display?

Please mention somewhere in the post when an app is only available for WP8. I don't think this is an unreasonable request. Instead of writing "the Windows Phone app is limited to Lumia handsets" just write "the Windows Phone app is limited to Lumia handsets running WP8." Without knowing whether you are talking about WP8 or all Windows Phones, this site is becoming more and more useless for me.

I loved the Focus, but the fact that I only got a Rubix cube app from them pushed me to Nokia (Lumia 710). Now I'm on the Lumia 920, and the only thing I wish is to have the option to use Bing Maps (alongside Nokia Maps). That's it.

BTW...I used this at work today, to show some photos I took of a business event we had yesterday...the boss loved it.

Ha ha it's a neat app. I will definitely keep this one.
But I hope they improve the photo quality displayed. It shows up a little grainy. I know Skydrive's rendering is also a little soft(even if you upload in full res), but photobeam is noticably worse.

Nokia really missed the boat on this one. Interesting idea, yes. Not so great implementation...
They should have:
(1) Made it a Lens accessible from the built-in camera app.
(2) Made the QR codes go to a web site that anyone can view the photo without installing the app (at least a reduced-size version of the photo anyway), and then provide a link on that page to download the photo to the app.

Works ok, but don't expect to use this for a presentation. I made a slide in photoshop the exact resolution of my monitor and saved it to Skydrive. On my phone from my Skydrive folder I opened the JPG and downloaded it, which saved it to my Saved Pictures folder, which is the only way I can think of to get a photo from my computer to a place on my phone that Photobeamer will allow access to it.
From there I tried to beam that photo to my screen, but it lost a lot of quality along the way. I'm not sure if it was the download from skydrive that downsized the image, or Photobeamer when it sends it up to the computer. It looks perfectly sharp on my 920's screen, but very soft around the edges on the computer.
It didn't need to load anymore, the progress dots stopped moving across the screen. A little disappointing.

The web page shows the app but it says it can't be downloaded over the web and asks me to try on the phone. It's been like this for all Nokia exclusive apps. On my phone, I see a dozen or so apps in Nokia Collection but this one and the Michelin app are not found.

I have another phone (Focus) on my marketplace account. Maybe they are not handling multiple phones properly even though I have selected L920 as the current phone. In any case, it looks like MS has a bug to fix.

cool. This is the app created by the imaging company that Nokia bought a few months back, they released this app for iOS couple of months back. Good to see the app here too. The name of the company is scalado ,looks they removed iOS app!

WPCENTRAL PLEASE READ THIS! Do something to distinguish news between WP7 and WP8 (or WP7+WP8) so that everyone is able to see what it is all about at a glance. This is really important and i think MANY here want this. I hate to have to read through the whole article and search for this information. In this case it isn't even in there! Just mark it as "WP8" and i know i can dismiss this app as WP7 user.

Nice app! When I first tried at home some of the pictures did not load completely (i.e. had only a part of the top of a picture on the screen). Bug, server side problem? But when I just tried it again at work it worked perfectly this time! It does seem to – understandably – compress/reduce the quality of the pics somewhat.

I have a 2500€ ES8000 tv and a 600€ Lumia 920 and I have to pass through the cloud to show my photos on my tv ???
Where is PlayTo For wp8 ??? Where is wifi Direct and dlna ???
A 99€ android of a friend of mine shared His video and photo with My tv using wifi in 2 seconds !!
Nokia and Ms can you please answer this ?

Coming...Always coming..
In my humble opinion dlna should be preinstalled or available day 1, as wp7 has it !! They have only to recompile it...PlayTo is a feature of WinRT too (works good on my Asus rt tablet).
I m a huge Ms fun, my frustration came from my friend's android phone beating my 920 :P...

It just has to be scaled to wp8 - notice lots of Nokia apps getting updated lately? This will be within the week, im sure of it, as its a core basic function these days. Dont get to hung up on a droid or iphone doing something that wp cant, all of them do things others cant - rather celebrate the differences as it gives us choice and drives prices down :) if they all did what the other did - where would be the fun in that? - curious though, how many times have you needed this feature since your droid run in?